Forbes compiled a top list of the highest paid actors based on the results of 2024 (10 photos)

The famous Forbes magazine has finally summed up the 2024 film results in its genre and found out which actors and actresses made the most money from their profession. There is no business or taxation here, only income that actors received through the film industry - filming and producing.





Surprisingly, the average age of the actors from the top 20 is over 54 years old, and the youngest was 40-year-old Scarlett Johansson (19th place). The top ten movie stars with the highest salaries are all older actors who, let's be honest, haven't starred in anything good in the past year. In addition, some of their films never made it beyond streaming. But money flowed into these people's pockets like a river. Let's look at the top 10 lucky ones.

10th place - Will Smith



Earnings: $26 million

The still partially cancelled actor starred in the film "Bad Boys 'til the End".

9th place — Adam Sandler





Earnings: $26 million

A lucrative contract with Netflix brings the actor income from viewings of films with his participation, which are on streaming. But Sandler also has new roles, for example, in the little-known and low-rated drama "Spaceman".

8th place — Nicole Kidman



Earnings: $31 million

The highest paid actress (then only men) gained income in quantity. She has as many as five projects in 2024, among which the provocative "Bad Girl" stands out.

7th place - George Clooney/ 6th place - Brad Pitt



Earnings: $31 million/ $32 million

This couple were inseparable in 2024: they played the leading roles together in the film "The Lone Wolves" and appeared in the film "Imaginary Friends".

Pitt also personally earns income from his production company, which released the films "Beetlejuice" and the Oscar-nominated "Nickel Boys".

5th place - Hugh Jackman



Earnings: $50 million

After an emotional farewell to his character in 2017's Logan, nothing short of a huge payday and the chance to work with his good friend Ryan Reynolds would have convinced 56-year-old Jackman to don that yellow suit in Deadpool and Wolverine. It's arguably the most lucrative project of his career.

4th place - Jerry Seinfeld



Earnings: $60 million

Yes, this is a recent winner of the Golden Raspberry Award in the category "Worst Actor". But he has a place in this rating and some pretty good numbers in the "income" column. In general, Seinfeld is more of a stage comedian and screenwriter than an actor, but in 2024 he just shot and produced the comedy "Uniced", where he starred in the lead role. The film is terrible, but it was made for Netflix, so the money was due.

3rd place - Kevin Hart



Earnings: $81 million

Like Kidman, the actor climbed so high due to the number of projects he starred in. There were five of them, the most famous of which was the flop based on the video game series "Borderlands", for which Hart received a "raspberry" nomination.

2nd place - Ryan Reynolds



Earnings: $85 million

It's no surprise that the producer, co-writer and mastermind behind Deadpool and Wolverine - the second-highest-grossing film of 2024 - has made a nice profit. But that was just part of a busy year that included starring in Imaginary Friends, which we've already seen here, and producing the new season of Welcome to Wrexham.

1st place — Dwayne Johnson



Earnings: $88 million

According to Forbes, Johnson received $50 million just for his role in the mediocre action movie Mission: Red, which was released on Amazon streaming. That's already wow! And the cartoon Moana 2, which he not only voiced but also produced, took over a billion dollars at the box office, which added to the actor's account, in the words of the producers, "an unholy amount of money."

If you look again at this list and the films that helped the actors earn so many dollars, you can come to a surprising conclusion: acting in all sorts of nonsense can be very profitable.